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"Schock va Gado" the lead track on this album is reason enough to own this CD. It will stop the clock in the room you are in. It will bring your deepest questions to your mind's surface and somehow ease them into answers. I heard it five years ago while in London at a friend's apartment and have been hunting for it ever since. (I even went to an Uzbekistani hair stylist in Manhattan several times hoping she'd remember to bring me a copy of her CD!--never changed my hairstyle so quickly or had my nails done so frequently in my life.) Finally, Yulduz is gaining sufficient popularity here in the West to appear on Amazon. Apparently, she's sold more records than Madonna (not many can say that!) world-wide, and that's motive enough to hear what the rest of the world is listening to. No material girl, though, her songs use lyrics of poets, echo the sounds of horses' hooves (remember--it's Uzebekhistan; now, picture all the horses!), and the tone of her voice moves into and under your skin. There's no need for translation, just a room to listen in.

I am not a music fan. I do not ever feel like listening to music in the car. Yet, I was a radio producer in a previous life, and I came across this unique CD from Uzbekistan. I cannot help over and over listening to its powerful lyrics. Yulduz makes the world seem such a small and unimportant thing in the wider scheme of being an honest person. Everyone traverses this road called the life, and she says "The sultans and the beggars are equal on this road."